16-year-old facing DWI charge

A 16-year-old Westmoreland student was arrested late Sunday night on charges he was driving while intoxicated, Oneida County Sheriff's deputies say.

The teen boy is facing charges of DWI, operating in violation of license restrictions and inadequate lights, deputies say.

At about midnight, a deputy first spotted a vehicle with inadequate headlights going north on State Route 233. The deputy stopped the vehicle, a 1997 Chevrolet Cavalier. That's when the deputy determined the driver was a teen with license restrictions that did not allow him to drive after 9 p.m.

At the Sheriff's building, tests determined that the driver's blood alcohol content registered .13 percent, which is above the .08 legal limit. The teen was released and scheduled to appear in Westmoreland town court later this month, deputies say.